Legendary Laura now Lahaina’s own
The Blears ‘Ohana — (from left) Clinton, Lord Blears and wife Lee, Lahaina’s own Laura, Jim and Carol grace the family Christmas card. The montage also shows their home about with dogs Bruce and Ahu Kai. Three of them had won surfing contests.
LAHAINA &#; She was the first woman in the world to win money in a surfing contest. Bosomy with a great figure, she posed surfing in the buff for Playboy magazine for a three-page feature. Her illustrious father, Lord James Blears &#; his real name, not a title &#; advised her to &#;go for it.&#;
She was a Smirnoff vodka girl, posing in a white swimsuit on a surfboard for a promotional poster sent to every bar in the islands.
She appeared for three straight years on ABC&#;s Wide World of Sports&#; &#;Challenge of the Sexes&#; as well as its &#;Superstars,&#; competing with the likes of NFL football star Dick Butkus and others.
She appeared on &#;What&#;s My Line,&#; a popular network show in the s, whose panel members had to guess the profession of guests. Nobody figured out that Laura was a world-class surfer.
On Waikiki Beach, she became a beach boy favorite as a little girl, learning, help
Silver Surfers: Meet 5 Surf Legends Who, in Their 60s and 70s, Still Hit the Beach
Hawai‘i surfers surfing past
“I don’t feel 60,” says Laura Blears. In , she became the first female surfer to challenge the boys at the pro level when she surfed in the prestigious Smirnoff Pro-Am. Photo: Dana Edmunds
The winter surfing season has arrived, and with it crowds of fresh-faced young wave riders eager to challenge themselves in the famous Hawaiian surf. Surfing will always be a sport for the young, but it’s no longer a sport only for the young. Look closely at the scene these days and you will see more gray heads speckling the water, more age lines beneath the sunscreen and more potbellied grandparents pulling longboards off their roof racks. As Baby Boomers start finding Social Security checks in the mail, the Age of the Senior Surfer has dawned. Not surprisingly, their numbers include legendary surfers, people who, in their prime, made the sport what it is today. Laura Blears. Randy Rarick. Jock Sutherland. Joey Cabell. Gerry Lopez. We found them still surfing, still contributing to the sport. If anything, their relationship with the waves has only deep
Blears, Laura
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Charismatic and barrier-breaking surfer of the early and mids, from Honolulu, Hawaii; a confident big-wave rider and first-generation competitor on the world tour, as well as a Playboy pinup and media star. Laura Blears was born () in Buffalo, New York, the daughter of former professional wrestler Lord James "Tally-Ho" Blears, moved with her family to Hawaii as a child and at age seven b
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I'm pleased to share with you my recently acquired (birthday present to self) 6'2" by 19" 1/4 single flyer swallow tail Ocean Pacific twin fin shaped by Mauricio Gill in for the then Op Creative Director.
This board is neither collectible, valuable or historically important but it does have the following points in its favor.
1) Its a 6'2" twin fin, my weapon of choice.
2) Its high polished gloss black.
3) It has never been ridden (the leg rope plug was still taped up).
4) It has 2 big Op labels under the glass and Op boards have always looked cool.
Ocean Pacific was originally started by John Smith in the 's as a true surfboard brand. Smith designed the original trademark and label for his surfboards, which he sold out of his shop North (San Diego) County Ding Repair shop in Leucadia. He sold the Ocean Pacific label to Don Hansen of Hansen Surf Shop in Encinitas. In , Jim Jenks acquired the name from Hansen and the Ocean Pacific apparel line was created and things slowly spiraled down hill from there, except for the fact that they continued to produce beautiful high quality surfboards, many of them airbrushed
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